Army Reserve company commanders and first sergeants are where the training rubber meets the proverbial road. |
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But for now, while Brenda is prepared to grin and bare it, I am going to make like the proverbial pig and wallow. |
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The old adage that more is not necessarily better is certainly the proverbial case here. |
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Back in the days between leaving college and finding a real job, my friends and I drank like the proverbial fishes. |
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Her husband rushed into the kitchen, and like that proverbial knight in shining armor, took over from that point on. |
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In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb. |
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Yes, the almighty American Buck has been waved in front of the proverbial noses of the planet and even I can smell the money. |
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He considers attitudes to antiquity and to change in general terms, and looks at perceptions of old traditions and proverbial lore. |
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She's tall, lissome and very pretty as well as being smart as the proverbial whip. |
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So finally, one blustery weekend last winter, he got down on literal and proverbial bended knee and offered up a very impressive diamond. |
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Who, then, was this Lord Chesterfield, about whom all of this proverbial fuss has been made? |
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She rises like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of her lunacy to become the first woman psychoanalyst in Switzerland. |
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Even then, biotechnology's best chicken vaccine may not arm poultry farmers with the proverbial magic bullet. |
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Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. |
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But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered. |
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The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it. |
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Consciousness or self-awareness is obviously the proverbial tip of the iceberg. |
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Compare with a semi-auto that can spit out a handful of rounds in two shakes of the proverbial lamb's tail. |
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So sharpen your proverbial pencils and get scribbling, because it's your reviews that keep me writing. |
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If someone writes in an honest truthful voice, people are drawn to it like the proverbial bees to honey. |
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A little after 2pm the tide turned and it ran like the proverbial clappers. |
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Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly. |
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The magazine rolls out the proverbial red-carpet to welcome the young Brit into its club of fashionable skinnies with an exclusive cover picture. |
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As tuition skyrockets, financial aid has become as elusive as that needle in the proverbial haystack. |
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Brown gives the impression these days that, like the proverbial fox, he sleeps with one eye open. |
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At work neither of them would say boo to the proverbial goose, yet here they are behaving like a couple of irritating street tykes. |
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It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold. |
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The unnaturalized alien, the proverbial stranger, operated not only on the margins of society but at the mercy and discretion of others. |
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His application to business was proverbial, though his attention to accounts is often held against him as unworthy of a monarch. |
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Most musicians see Toronto, New York, Paris or London as the brass ring, the point of departure for the proverbial big time. |
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The nippy corner forward enjoyed the proverbial field day, his goal and five points from play being the icing on the cake. |
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And I'm one, if hit by the proverbial SUV with bull bars tomorrow, I'd leave everyone behind in a state of total confusion. |
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For a fan of music, like Ian obviously is, this job is the proverbial kid-in-a-sweet-shop vocational choice. |
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Clark says this move away from hand-held camera work effectively forces audiences to face the proverbial music. |
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Not only does it allow for faster creation and composition of music, it allows the composer to become the proverbial one-man band. |
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The very notion of stepping into the proverbial line of fire chilled her blood. |
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He's got broad shoulders, as in being responsible and not being just the passer of the proverbial buck. |
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More indicative still, however, is a proverbial usage common to Win and Mary the cook-maid. |
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Outside of the Ghetto the modern Shylock is envisioned as a man of mode, whose proverbial gabardine has been replaced by the latest Parisian cry. |
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Roscommon were definitely the proverbial Goliaths on Sunday and next time out might not retreat the way they did in Hyde Park. |
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On campus, they stick out like the proverbial sore thumb because they are the ones with the bandaged fingers. |
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Conversely, an inconsistency in your essay will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. |
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In other words, the government is between the proverbial rock and the hard place. |
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It's just so much easier to curse like the proverbial inner city sailor than to speak in a traditionally sophisticated and cultured manner. |
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You don't have to be a Democrat, a liberal, or a socialist to acknowledge that the proverbial wheels are falling off the juggernaut. |
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I was notorious for talking myself straight into a proverbial brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation. |
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The drift back to Enzed is increasing as it is found that the proverbial pot of gold is easier accessible. |
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Don't ask me what has happened in the interim, but the whole issue seems to be as dead as the proverbial doornail just now. |
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The problem with public information is that it's the proverbial double-edged sword. |
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And I'll continue to beat the drum for those companies and agencies brave enough to push the proverbial envelope. |
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Blake, like the proverbial alchemist, by his illustrations, changes the mundane world into a fairyland accessible to every child that picks up his book! |
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I've been trying to eat properly recently, as I am fighting the proverbial battle of the bulge, but over the last two days, I have been pigging out! |
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This is made easier, of course because while still looking fetchingly human, she has the proverbial nine lives and can clamber up walls, leap across yawning gaps etc. |
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As they once again invade the safety of the prison that the group calls home, Rick is forced to take up the proverbial sword. |
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Well, we left off with Bishop on the soccer field, and Kalinda had her proverbial back against the wall. |
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The proverbial material of established older novelists and poets such as the Lowland Scots of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott has attracted some attention. |
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But because it had not erupted in recorded history, it missed the proverbial geological radar screen. |
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For those who may have been living under the proverbial rock, Andy Warhol is perhaps the most well-known American artist of the twentieth century. |
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Michelle has been known to eat fresh peas by the proverbial bushelful. |
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I could blame it on my stinking corporate day job, which admittedly has been keeping me scrambling around like the proverbial mouse in the squirrel cage. |
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Like the proverbial power broker who works behind the scenes, optimal hydration is one of the physical conditions most closely associated with all aspects of anabolism. |
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Cultural trends, like proverbial buses, always come in threes. |
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Standing nearly 6ft 4in and built like the proverbial brick outhouse, the Russian's brooding handsomeness makes him one of the few genuine new stars of the men's game. |
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Being a diplomat's wife thrusts multiple roles on her and often she has to burn the proverbial midnight oil to catch up on unfinished work on the canvas. |
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I hope rex, Woody Johnson, and the organization they lead give the proverbial finger to that suggestion. |
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To avoid heavy losses, the banks had their captive securities firms package the loans and sell them as securities to the proverbial widows and orphans. |
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A deft chess player, Schwarzenegger had maneuvered her between the proverbial rock and a hard place. |
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The initial buzz and projected rapid adoption rate of the technology is being driven by suppliers' zeal to stay in the good graces of the proverbial 900-pound gorilla. |
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They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent. |
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She looked as though there was something she wanted to say, but either she couldn't find the words or the proverbial cat had her tongue because she didn't say anything. |
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The problem that the club and the skinny-dippers say they have with the proposed ordinance is that it uses the proverbial machine gun to kill a mosquito. |
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Taken at face value, the question seems simple enough but scratch it and the hidden prejudices and stereotypes tumble out of the cupboard like the proverbial skeletons. |
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The manoeuvre saw him finally in the clear and he finished like the proverbial express train, but alas it was all too late, and he had to settle for fourth place. |
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A conversation with Mary Higgins Clark seems like a catchup with an absent aunt, or a proverbial long lost friend. |
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Thus began the proverbial race to the bottom, because the more ethical a fund's management was, the less attractive the fund became to smart money. |
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Machiavelli himself, author of groundbreaking comedies such as the Mandragola, became a proverbial figure of evil on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. |
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This was a proverbial snipe hunt, since we never found our quarry. |
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Unfortunately, this message is delivered with such a lack of finesse and tact that it feels like the proverbial sledgehammer is trying to pound the message into the audience. |
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Ford, on the other hand, is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, says Hazel. |
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He questions old saws with irreverence, humour, and flintiness, unencumbered by our proverbial politeness and our suffocating political correctness. |
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The main attraction is just plain old proverbial eye candy in the form of glossy-lipped, apple-cheeked, exfoliated pretty boy punims peeking out from perfectly pomaded locks. |
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Many of the contestants who have coughed up their proverbial blood, sweat and tears for the last few months see the decision in a much different, more impatient light. |
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The set-up and plotline may be weak, but the cheapo realisation is as messy as the proverbial dog's dinner. |
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Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. |
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The proverbial defenestration of the baby with the bath water illustrates the problem. |
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Ebert gave James the proverbial two thumbs up, and the project was a go. |
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My choice by the proverbial country mile would be Bob Rubin regardless of who wins the election. |
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The article by Arthur Siegel et al is a study in bias, distortion and the art of pushing the proverbial square peg into the round hole. |
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I grew up in a prefab house on Main Street in 1950s suburbia, the second and last child of a proverbial nuclear family. |
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The proverbial fence-jumping sheep have been handed their P45s and sent to be re-skilled in the Fosbury Flop in time for the London Olympics. |
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It is all very well to sit back and complain about undermanning in the force and the lack of the proverbial bobby on the beat. |
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He was tall, with an Arnold Schwarzenegger chest, and fit with the flower shop as well as the proverbial bull in the china closet. |
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The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant. |
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I first send them my ideas looking not unlike the proverbial Mad Dog's Breakfast and they help me put some sort of order into them. |
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Back then, Davis was like the proverbial deer in the headlights, paralyzed by blackouts that started in San Diego and within months darkened most of the state. |
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Marmion, published in 1808, produced lines that have become proverbial. |
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Rome was in panic, and the terror cimbricus became proverbial. |
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The eventual proliferation of TAS devices will eliminate the proverbial backup window without the overhead and cost of multiple mirror sets or snapshots. |
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As a business driven by clear-cut processes and the need for very specific, wordy documents, insurance has always been known as the realm of the proverbial paper-pusher. |
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When it comes to retrofitting an existing incandescent or fluorescent product to an LED device, Jobs's quote hits the proverbial nail on the head. |
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Archetypal machine politician Tom Pendergast, who ran Kansas City with a proverbial iron hand, aided Harry Truman's political rise at virtually every step. |
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Like the proverbial man of one book, the man of one gun is to be bewared. |
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